Whitehead was shot in the foot, but he remained in command of his platoon with the bullet still in his ankle-bone until three o'clock in the afternoon, when he swooned from pain and fatigue.
These were coherently given, but he swooned almost before the words were out of his mouth.
The princess swooned away, and Boges carried her to her sleeping-room, the door of which he barred carefully.
As it was, my arm was smashed, and I swooned away with the pain.
Then prayed she to see his lord forthwith, and when she came to the hermitage and found him lying there sore sick and bleeding, she swooned for sorrow.
And therewith Sir Modred fell down stark dead to the earth, and King Arthur fell down also in a swoon, and swooned many times.
But when Sir Gawain heard of his brethren's death he swooned for sorrow and wrath, for he wist that Sir Lancelot had killed them in malice.
Then did the lady shriek dismally, andswooned as though she would die.
To transfer me on board and below was a most painful operation, and I again swooned away soon recovering, however, under Ella's gentle ministrations.
Having explained thus far, therefore, he at once proceeded to raise me in his powerful arms; and though he did so with the utmost gentleness, the agony attending the movement was so intense that I swooned away.
The servants wept, Claudia swooned away again and again, and the whole place seemed a field of sorrow and an abode of misfortune.
He yearned till he all but swooned to go and embrace her, but refrained, for bashfulness, in the lady's presence.
Which the poor simpleton almost swoonedto hear; and:--"How so?
The Nightingale has swooned for ecstasy, And hides away amid the vine-clad bowers Upon the terrace; Oh!
The soul of the cloudy darkness Awakened beneath her beams, The sky swooned away with longing, The Earth stirred in tender dreams.
Claudia pressed his hand, and such was the anguish of her heart that she swooned away upon the bloody bosom of Don Vincente, and at the same moment he was seized with a mortal paroxysm.
With a great shriek his mother swooned away, and the women turned him from the room and said he had slain his mother.
But suddenly he swooned and fell and his consciousness went from him.
The countess could have swooned with terror, for she knew that now she was doomed to an unhappy life, whichever of these knights prevailed.
At these words the maid Elaine could have swooned for very joy, for she deemed that Sir Lancelot had borne her token for love of her.
Then in a little while heswooned under the heat of the sun, from hunger and weakness, and lay half in and half out of the brook.
With the words he thrust his dagger into the body of the struggling boy, who swooned and dropped to the floor.
Twas I who had followed you, lord, since that you did leave the hold of the witches, and when you swooned I brought you here, to the convent of the White Nuns.
Sir Tristram swooned and fell; and his squire came running to him, just as the men of Sir Marhaus' ship came and drew their master on board.
When they had kissed, they swooned again, and in a little while Balin died, but Balan did not pass until midnight.
Poor Weber almost swooned at the sound of these cracked voices, with their bodeful raven-note; and will never forget the effect it had on him.
Five score thousand Franks swooned on the earth and fell.
Balsamo, bending with a sob over the body of his wife, swooned as he was kissing the tresses.
He uttered a scream and swooned away, this time really.
My poor lad, you must be rather weak of mind, for you swooned away at the outset.
But the touch of his hand caused me the same shock as at Taverney, and again I swooned or rather I slept, for it was a sleep that was good.
Frank and Socato had been close at hand when Gage placed Elsie Bellwood in the boat, and barely was the girl left alone before she was removed by the Seminole, in whose arms she lay limp and unconscious, having swooned at last.
Hans shed nearly a bucketful of joyful tears, and Professor Scotch actuallyswooned from sheer amazement and delight.
So the Sultan Habib read over these verses more than once, and wept till he swooned away; then recovering himself he said in his mind, "To me death were pleasanter than life without my love!
When it fell about her in ruins her soul had swooned with the disaster.
She almost swooned when she reached the Viewcrest Inn and found herself confronted by Skip Magruder.
There was a cry; Georgiana had swooned sideways on to Lord Timpany's shoulder.
When Shemsennehar heard this, she swooned away once more, which when the Khalif saw, he came to her in haste and commanded the wine-service to be removed and each damsel to return to her chamber.
When I came within the city and saw no human being therein, I had nigh- well swooned and died for fear.
He wept till he swooned away, and when he recovered, he rose and walked about the garden pondering what fate had done with him and bewailing his long estrangement from those he loved.
When she heard this, she swooned away again; and when she recovered, she addressed herself to do as I bade her.
All he felt was the agitation that follows an evil dream, like a persistent odor, but suddenly the sensation of blasphemy struck him; it was dim and violent: he swooned and Veltro took him in his arms.
Guido swooned and awoke in his cell, an assassin, a thief, a perjurer.
Not receiving any answer, he extended his arm and shook Price by the collar, fearing that he hadswooned from cold and fatigue.
On being made acquainted by Leonard, who helped him out of the pest-cart, with the danger he had run, the piper uttered a cry of terror, and swooned away.
What happened after this Rohan never knew; for, overcome by frenzy and fatigue, he swooned away.
When she gave it to him, he took it and breaking it open, read it and apprehended its purport; and when he came to the end of it, he swooned away.
When she had made an end of her song, she threw the lute from her hand and wept till she swooned away.
When she had made an end of her song, she cast the lute from her hand and wept till she swooned away, whereupon the Khalif bade carry her to her chamber.
Then she cast the lute from her hand andswooned away; so she was carried to her chamber and indeed passion waxed upon her.
Lady Bazelhurst, watching at the window casement, almost swooned with amazement at the sight of them.
The woman sank back into the chair; the blood left her face; she would have swooned had not curiosity proved stronger than her terror.
I swoonedaway and he raised his sword to cut off my head; but I clung to his skirts and he lifted me in his hand, as I were a sparrow [in the clutches of a hawk].
The javelin grazed his breast and pierced the skin, for Sherkan was high-bosomed: so he gave one cry and swooned away.
They did so, and I swooned away and was for excess of pain in a world other than this.
At this sight, he swooned away and all the troops stood round him, weeping and crying aloud, till he came to himself, when he looked at Sherkan and wept sore, whilst all who were present did the like.
Then he swooned away and did not recover his senses till the morning, when there came to him one of his father's servants and standing at his head, summoned him to the King's presence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swooned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
